Elevating Leadership - by Pelin Kohn (Hardcover)

About the Book

Elevating Leadership explores the critical importance of innovative pedagogical practices in a world where leadership demands are rapidly changing - using experiential learning, simulations, and technology-enabled tools, Pelin Kohn provides real-world scenarios, fosters practical insights, and enhances problem-solving skills.

Book Synopsis

In the rapidly evolving landscape of leadership education, the importance of innovative pedagogical practices cannot be overstated. Demands on leaders continue to develop and a diverse and dynamic skill set is crucial for navigating the complexities of the modern workplace. Leaders are expected to demonstrate adaptability, emotional intelligence, ethical decision-making, collaborating across cultures and technologies. To cultivate these essential skills, traditional teaching methods may not be sufficient, necessitating the integration of innovative pedagogies to unlock the full potential of leadership learners.

Elevating Leadership explores the critical importance of innovative pedagogical practices in a world where leadership demands are rapidly changing - using experiential learning, simulations, and technology-enabled tools, Pelin Kohn provides learners with real-world scenarios, fosters practical insights, and enhances problem-solving skills.

The competency-based leadership model as a new development through innovative pedagogical practices allows learners to acquire tangible skills and behaviours that can be immediately applied in real-world leadership scenarios, ensuring both theoretical and practical development is achieved. Elevating Leadership demonstrates how to cultivate a growth mindset in leadership learners, resulting in adaptable and resilient leaders who can navigate change and uncertainty successfully.

Review Quotes

Elevating Leadership, Dr. Pelin Kohn draws on years of experience in the corporate world and in college classrooms to create guide for best principles and practices of leaders and leading Students and instructors alike will gain insights into contemporary factors like diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as emerging pedagogies like story-telling, role-playing, and self-evaluating, that in turn enhance student learning. Dr. Kohn's book thus fills a void in the leadership studies textbook market.

--David Ulbrich, PhD, author of Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943

In Elevating Leadership: Innovative Teaching Methods for Developing Future Leaders by Pelin Kohn, readers are invited to explore the dynamic landscape of leadership education. The book artfully navigates the complexities of modern leadership challenges, offering practical insights and innovative pedagogical practices to develop the next generation of leaders. By emphasizing ethical leadership, collaborative models, and experiential learning, Kohn provides a comprehensive guide for educators, HR professionals, and corporate trainers to nurture authentic and agile leaders. If you're looking to understand and put into practice effective leadership strategies in today's fast-paced world, this book is a must-read.

--Natalia Blank, Ph.D, Bay Path University

Whether you are teaching leadership skills or looking for ways to expand your own leadership abilities, Kohn has crafted a cross-disciplinary, practical, and inspirational guide for leadership growth.

--Anne Watson, Vermont State Senate

Dr. Pelin Kohn is a leadership educator and practitioner, specializing in contemporary, culturally relevant development for the changing workplace in multiple industries around the world. Educators, students, trainers, and mentors can cultivate leadership in themselves and others through her lessons on experiential learning, technological innovations, and skills development. These practical applications, like simulations for decision-making and problem-solving, have measurable results. This important book encourages us to rethink leadership development holistically, critically, creatively, and ethically as we transform the world in which we learn and work.--Dr. Chrys Egan, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Communication, Salisbury University

About the Author

Pelin Kohn is Leadership Program Chair and Founding Director of the Center for Leadership, Norwich University, USA. Dr. Kohn studied education in her M.A. as a Fulbright Scholar and received her doctoral degree in Leadership (Planning and Administration in Education). Dr. Kohn worked as an executive coach, designing and applying corporate workshops on leadership developments with CEOs, middle management, and novice managers to improve their leadership skills.